Dr. Julie Forbess

Millington Central High School

Advanced Placement Literature and Composition

  • About AP
  • Exam Date - Thursday, May 9, 2013
  • Each AP Exam score is a weighted combination of the student's scores on the multiple-choice section and the free-response section.
    The final score is reported on a 5-point scale:
    5 = extremely well qualified
    4 = well qualified
    3 = qualified
    2 = possibly qualified
    1 = no recommendation
  • AP Scholar Awards
  • Language Course vs. Literature Course: What is the essential difference?:
    • An AP course in English Language and Composition engages students in becoming
      skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts, and in becoming
      skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes
      . Both their writing and their
      reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes,
      audience expectations, and subjects, as well as the way genre conventions and the
      resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing.

    • An AP English Literature and Composition course engages students in the careful
      reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of
      selected texts, students deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language
      to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers
      . As they read, students consider
      a work’s structure, style and themes, as well as such smaller-scale elements as the
      use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism and tone.

Summer Work 2013


Reading Selections
Useful Links
Downloads
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
Google Drive Video





Dr. Forbess - AP Literature and Composition

1st Semester


Literary Terms: Poetry

Quizlet
Quizlet

The Road by Cormac McCarthy



Articles about The Road :

Interview with Cormac McCarthy

The Awakening

E text #1 E text#2

Women in the novel Chart: What are Edna's real options?

A Jury of Her Peers (online text)
A Rose for Emily (online text)

Character Trading Cards

Venn Diagram: 3 circles

King Lear

Shakespeare Help

King Lear

Is this the promised end?

The four humours

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